We are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Spring AMQP 1.4; the GA is planned to be released in early November.

First of all, thank you all who provided feedback for the milestone 1.4 M1 version and submitted reports (bugs or new features). Special thanks to Stéphane Nicoll, who had introduced annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener) and the new RabbitMessagingTemplate.

Features and fixes included in this release (changes since the milestone)

• With the annotation-based message listener you can use the @SendTo annotation to send the result of the method as a reply message (when there's no replyTo in the inbound message):
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Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Sync 1.0.0.

Spring Sync enables efficient communication and synchronization of data between clients and Spring-based servers.

The release dependency is available in the repo.spring.io milestone repository at the dependency coordinates of "org.springframework.sync:spring-sync:1.0.0.M1".

This release includes:

• A patch abstraction for calculating differences and applying patches between Java objects.
• Support for representing patches as JSON Patch.
• An implementation of Differential Synchronization for creating and applying patches in a controlled manner.
• DiffSyncController, a Spring MVC controller that handles HTTP request of type application/patch-json+patch and performing Differential Synchronization against a resource.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.2 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.2.

This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.2 New & Noteworthy.

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 SR1 release as 64bit and 32bit…

Spring Boot 1.1.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a security patch to the "white label error" page which prevents potential cross-site scripting attacks; as such it is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M2 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M1. Highlights include:

• Full configuration of Jackson ObjectMapper features from your application.properties file.
• Auto-configuration for Jersey.
• Support for Log4j2.
• Support for commons-dbcp2.
• A new "disk usage" health indicator.
• Improved RabbitMQ auto-configuration.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation also continues to…

Spring Cloud (the new umbrella project announced in September) has reached a milestone, its first, and fresh jars are available in the repo.spring.io repository. Spring Cloud is going to follow a "release train" model for releases, a bit like Spring Data, but we haven't got a cool name for this one yet, so it's just 1.0.0.M1. The modules that are part of this release are

• Spring Cloud Config: Centralized external configuration management backed by a git repository. The configuration resources map directly to Spring Environment but could be used by non-Spring applications if desired.

• Spring Cloud Netflix: Integration with various Netflix OSS components (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Archaius, etc.).

• Spring Cloud Bus: An event bus for linking services and service instances together with distributed messaging. Useful for propagating state changes across a cluster (e.g. config change events).

• Spring Cloud Security: A set of primitives for building secure applications and services with minimum fuss.

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On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.0.1!

This release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as some new features:

• HTTPS access and Authentication to Admin Server
• Cluster and Stream views in UI
• Configure a location for custom modules
• Null sink

You can download the zip distribution or install on OSX using homebrew. On RHEL/CentOs you can install using yum.

Feedback is very important, so please get in touch with questions and comments via

• StackOverflow spring-xd tag
• Spring JIRA or GitHub Issues

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.1 is available now. As the first maintenance release in the 4.1 line, this release contains a wide range of fixes for regressions and other issues reported against 4.1 GA. A big thank you to all the issue reporters out there!

4.1.1 also comes with a selection of minor enhancements, for example: consistent handling of Java 8's Optional type, a Jackson ObjectMapper builder class with refined defaults, some requested JDBC refinements, as well as specific performance improvements.

-> List of resolved JIRA issues for Spring…

Spring Boot 1.1.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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